Michel Tricot
Airbyte, Co-Founder & CEOMichel has been working in data engineering for the past 15 years. As head of integrations and engineering director at Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), he grew the team responsible for building and scaling the data ingestion and data distribution connectors, syncing 100s TB every day.
In 2020, he co-founded Airbyte, the new open-source data integration platform, with the vision to commoditize data integration pipelines across all industries and organizations.
After just ve months, Airbyte raised $5.2M from Accel, YCombinator, 8VC, and some high-prole business angels, including the co-founder of Segment, the former GM Cloudera, and the co-founder of Liveramp and Safegraph.
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